JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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TokyoXtreme
So what is a police notebook, what information does it contain, was the officer negligent in it's theft, and what makes the theft of a police notebook newsworthy? I would have answered at least one of these BASIC questions when I was a student writing news articles for my university newspaper. May I apply for an editorial job?
Posted in: Officer gets notebook stolen from car during pachinko session
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TokyoXtreme
Why can't she just be like everybody else and sit quietly? It's impolite and selfish to monopolize the entire classroom's attention. Seriously though, why do the windows even open wide enough to allow ledge access? My junior high didn't even have a second floor, and yet the windows still didn't open enough for even a small child to climb in or out. Suicide attempts should alert parents and teachers that there's a problem, but there needs to be a course of action that leads to a solution, beyond those silly posters that feature 19 y.o. models posing with a fist limply raised to her breast saying "don't kill yourself".
Posted in: 14-year-old girl survives suicide attempt at Mie school
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TokyoXtreme
That's why it's "old media", and that's why it's disappearing; voyeuristic death isn't the turn-on that dinosaur journalists always assumed it was.
Posted in: The crash that claimed the life of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili prior to the opening of the Vancouver Winter Olympics was aired on national TV. Do you think it should have been?
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TokyoXtreme
HFCS is not used in Japan, because there is no economic advantage to using it over real sugar, which is highly taxed in the USA (whereas corn is subsidized). It's cheaper to use HFCS over sugar in the USA, and that's why it's in everything. Not sure if it was invented in Japan, but the Japanese corn industry isn't huge, so I'm guessing Japan doesn't use HFCS at all.
Posted in: How well founded is Japan's gastronomic pride?
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TokyoXtreme
If anyone wonders why obesity in Japan is lower than the USA, it's almost entirely due to the predominance of high fructose corn syrup that's found in almost every single processed food that requires a sweetner. HFCS simply does not exist in any food produced in Japan, it is an entirely American phenomenon. The arrival of HFCS in the American food supply corresponds directly with the spike in American obesity in the 1970s. Thai food and French food kick the swimming-in-MSG offerings of Japanese food anytime.
Posted in: How well founded is Japan's gastronomic pride?
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TokyoXtreme
"Mis-shapen" fruit is what fruit actually looks like when grown on a farm, free of trendy preferences of superfluous appearance. I'm beginning to think that the average Japanese truly has no preference to what produce actually looks like; it's the supermarket owners who assume that what all the other supermarkets are doing is correct, because that's the way it's always been done. Taste, smell, and texture: that's all that matters, and anyone with a knife and half a brain will agree. So what shall be done with the perverse obsession with uniformity in Japanese culture?
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TokyoXtreme
Is there no consideration to the dumbing down of Japanese society through an imposed "arrested development" that occurs from obnoxiously perpetual announcements and admonishments from train cars, escalators, and so forth -- mindless warnings to hold onto the rail or not to forget your umbrella -- that systematically hypnotized people into not thinking for themselves as a matter of habit? Unsurprising that there exists a copy/paste phenomenon; all people living on Japan are subject to this invasion of mind. Thank you for very much shopping at Marui today, and please be very careful to hold onto the handrail when riding the escalator. It never ends.
Posted in: The dumbing down of Japanese students
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TokyoXtreme
I am the recent owner of an iPhone, and I was frankly stunned by its lack of simple features common to every other phone I've ever seen. Can't even make simple folders to sort your inbox, nor your contact list! Contacts can be sorted through a dodgy syncing process, but a user can't even make the slightest modifications away from a PC. Unbelievable. I've only had my iPhone for days, and am regretting leaving docomo. Be ye warned! And the privacy options suck too. I'll never buy another apple product.
Posted in: Apple's Jobs unveils $499 iPad tablet
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TokyoXtreme
If the dad disappears from the kid's life and buries himself in office "work" or Thai prostitutes, then mom will undoubtedly raise the boy to know nothing of manliness. Carnivore / herbivore... please leave the English to English speakers.
Posted in: Glamorous mama-to-be Anna Tsuchiya hopes for 'carnivore,' not 'herbivore'
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TokyoXtreme
I bet the battle sequences take four or five times as long as similar battles on the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom versions. Probably littered with dumb voice acting and unskippable cutscenes. It's the unskippable cutscenes in particular that forced me to abandon FFX (and the series in general) about halfway through the game. If anyone's played FFX, then probably you will remember a sequence where some flying twerp attacks you on a mountain and turns your party into zombies. That was when I said "enough".
Posted in: New 'Final Fantasy' video game goes on sale
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TokyoXtreme
Incidentally, there is indeed a TOILET in JR Minami-Senju station.
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TokyoXtreme
Accenture should go under for having such a wack name. How could anyone take such a company seriously? What a bunch of idiots.
Posted in: Accenture marks 1st sponsor to cut ties with Tiger Woods
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TokyoXtreme
All these people talkin', all this stuff about him; why don't they just let him be?
Posted in: Is Tiger Woods fair game for the media? Do you think a candid TV interview would help him?
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TokyoXtreme
Hah, that's right. I sit in priority seats pretty often actually, as they are PRIORITY seats; IF there is someone whose description matches the silhouette sticker, then I'll give up the seat. Otherwise, an empty seat's an empty seat. BOOYAH!
Posted in: Do it at home: Train manners in Japan
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TokyoXtreme
Why don't the idiots standing directly in front of the door step off the train for five freaking seconds so I can get off without having to give them a shove? One of my biggest pet peeves is not even the idiotic behavior that I see; it's actually the obnoxiously redundant and seemingly unending announcements. "Now arriving at Kita-Senju station; transfer here for the Hibiya line, the Tsukuba Express Line, the Chiyoda subway line, the JR Joban line. The door on the right side will open." (translated from Japanese and then provided again in English). And then the moronic conductor frantically and LOUDLY repeats exactly what has just been read verbatim, in double speed, adding rhetorical gems like "please don't do anything dangerous or rush for the train." Those stupid announcements benefit no one, and people who are acting unmannerly already know they are misbehaving; the noise pollution just makes riding a smelly sweat-car all that much more unpleasant. The announcement should simply say (in a calm feminine voice, or alternatively James Earl Jones' voice) "Kita-Senju". Just ONCE.
Posted in: Do it at home: Train manners in Japan
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TokyoXtreme
The 19-year-old man is a minor! There is something very wrong with this terminology. Why doesn't the article call him a 19-year-old boy?
Posted in: 19-year-old arrested for rape after threatening victim on cell phone
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TokyoXtreme
I wonder how many ID cards the policemen caught. Just between you and me, ID cards are kind of a suspicious lot. I don't trust them.
Posted in: Security tightened in Tokyo for Obama's visit
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TokyoXtreme
I guess the officer standing to the right just got finished with some particularly nasty bit of interrogative surgery on poor Ichihashi.
Posted in: Ichihashi transferred
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TokyoXtreme
There's nothing wrong with being on a train and talking on the phone at a normal conversational level; the problem is the SHRILL and ANNOYING ringtone (always someone over 45) that goes off for 20 seconds, and gets progressively louder the longer it rings. Anyway, what do you expect from a society that rarely teaches basic courtesy and actually disdains social grace?
Posted in: Self-centered zombies running rampant through Japanese society
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TokyoXtreme
I have to also point out the irony of the legions of Japanese cosplay "surgeons" wearing masks (all day without changing), yet not properly scrubbing up with soap and hot water. Doctor, the patient has just died of septic shock.
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